How M16 has been improved in the past 20 yrs?

• lionnoisy

  3 May 08, 22:45

  Pl give us a break here----dunt compare M16 with other old or new rifles.

  I just want to know what improvements,if any, have been made to M16 in the past says,20 years.

  Look at the computer,the TV and handphone u are using every day.All have been improved for few generations in the past 20 years.I am generous here.If u think 20 not enough,just share.There is no ban if u tell me improvement 40 years ago.

  Pl take note what the co inventor of M 16 replied when he was asked

  ''''And what kind of advance was there in our combat rifle?''

  JIM SULLIVAN (answered): They're right exactly where they were when we gave them the M-16 in 1960. They haven't advanced an inch.....''

  Before u share with us,pl read some info to refresh your memory:

  some latest news:

  http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2008-04-20-gunwars_N.htm?csp=34

  history help u recap:

  http://www.sfahq.com/Armament/Rifles/M_16_Caliber_5_56mm/

  X ray

  

  This thread has been inspired by the grave comments of JIM SULLIVAN, M-16 Co-Designer:

  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/july-dec07/rifles_09-24.html

  PAUL SOLMAN, NewsHour Economics Correspondent: The M-16 semiautomatic rifle. With its shorter version, the M-4, it's the gun of our troops in combat. The hat's for the sun, by the way; the earmuffs for the noise. Jim Sullivan helped design this rifle during the Eisenhower administration.

  JIM SULLIVAN, M-16 Co-Designer: Fifty years ago.

  PAUL SOLMAN: Fifty years ago?

  JIM SULLIVAN: Well, we started on it 50 years ago this month.

  PAUL SOLMAN: That's 1957, the year the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. In the half-century since, computers shrank from houses to handhelds; polio was cured; man made it to the moon and Mars. And what kind of advance was there in our combat rifle?

  JIM SULLIVAN: They're right exactly where they were when we gave them the M-16 in 1960. They haven't advanced an inch.....

• tankfanatic

  5 May 08, 01:25

  ok ok so when are your plasma gun coming out?

• martin_lim85

  6 May 08, 20:12

  Originally posted by tankfanatic:

  ok ok so when are your plasma gun coming out?

  
  how about ray-gun?

• arball

  6 May 08, 20:48

  guess main improvements would be on the accesories rather than the platform

• 16/f/lonely

  6 May 08, 20:51

  I love the M4......a light and handy rifle that's quite accurate and fairly easy to mantain.

• Sepecat

  6 May 08, 23:45

  M16 already improved -  please check out the HK416

• SingaporeTyrannosaur

  7 May 08, 02:00

  I'd like to know what improvements lionnoisy made to himself after over 3000 posts in here? A new clone?
• Sepecat

  8 May 08, 22:57

  I think a clone is some kind of replica of an original thing.

   

  So if  lionoisy were an M16 in 1960 , he wud  be an M16A4 today . So I say  that's an improvement - you think ?

  If he were a clone, he would still be an M16 right ?  So , he is not a clone right  ?

  Now ,if he were still a clone ............someone please finish the story.......

• rokkie

  9 May 08, 22:05

  better that ak47?